Configuring the React frontend for API consumption

In this section, you will configure the frontend React app to communicate with the backend Flask server by setting up a proxy in React to consume the API from the Flask server.

In order to configure the React proxy for API consumption, you will need to update the proxy field in the package.json file of the frontend React app. The proxy field allows you to specify a URL that will be used as the base for all API requests made from the React app.

Let’s update the package.json file:

1. Open the package.json file in the project directory using a text editor, and then add a proxy field to the package.json file and set it to the URL of your Flask server:

   {  "name": "bizza",  "version": "0.1.0",  "proxy": "http://localhost:5000"}

2. Next, you will need to make HTTP requests to the Flask server from the React frontend. We will use the...